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- noun Plural form of
CCD .
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Examples
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The CCDs were the best available, he said, and so were the fibers in the spectrograph, and the 2.5-meter telescope was the size that fit them both.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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The CCDs were the best available, he said, and so were the fibers in the spectrograph, and the 2.5-meter telescope was the size that fit them both.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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The CCDs were the best available, he said, and so were the fibers in the spectrograph, and the 2.5-meter telescope was the size that fit them both.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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The CCDs were the best available, he said, and so were the fibers in the spectrograph, and the 2.5-meter telescope was the size that fit them both.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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A total of 42 light-detecting chips called CCDs are used to look for periodic dips in starlight when planets pass in front of their host stars.
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A total of 42 light-detecting chips called CCDs are used to look for periodic dips in starlight when planets pass in front of their host stars.
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A total of 42 light-detecting chips called CCDs are used to look for periodic dips in starlight when planets pass in front of their host stars.
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Equipped with the largest camera ever launched into space -- a 95-megapixel array of charged couple devices, known as CCDs -- the Kepler telescope is able to detect the faint, periodic dimming of stars that planets cause as they pass by.
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The spacecraft is equipped with a 95-megapixel array of charged couple devices, known as CCDs, the largest camera ever flown in space.
Spaceflight Now 2009
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Equipped with the largest camera ever launched into space - a 95-megapixel array of charged couple devices, known as CCDs - the Kepler telescope is able to detect the faint, periodic dimming of stars that planets cause as they pass by.
The Times of India 2009
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